Pteris vittata

Pteris vittata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Pteridophyta
Class:	Pteridopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
Family:	Pteridaceae
Subfamily:	Pteridoideae
Genus:	Pteris
Species:	P. vittata
Binomial name
Pteris vittata L.
Synonyms
Pteris costata Bory P. diversifolia Sw. P. ensifolia Poir. P. inaequilateralis Poir. P. longifolia Wall. P. microdonata Gaudin P. vittata fo. cristata Ching in Ching & S.H.Wu Pycnodoria vittata (L.) Small

Pteris vittata, commonly known variously as the Chinese brake,Chinese ladder brake, or simply ladder brake, is a fern species in the Pteridoideae subfamily of the Pteridaceae. It is indigenous to Asia, tropical Africa and Australia. The type specimen was collected in China by Pehr Osbeck.

Pteris vittata is native and widespread in the paleotropics: found from the east, to the south tropical, and southern Africa (in Angola; Kenya; Lesotho; Malawi; Mozambique; Namibia; Tanzania (including the Zanzibar Archipelago); Cape Province, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, and Transvaal in South Africa; Swaziland; Uganda; Zambia; and Zimbabwe); temperate and tropical Asia (in the provinces of Anhui, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Xizang, and Yunnan in China; the prefectures of Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan; and Thailand); and Australia, in the states of New South Wales,Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia.

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